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SAP Central Procurement, Private Cloud Edition

With visibility across companywide purchasing processes, you can improve compliance and reduce costs.

Comprehensive access to key procurement processes, all in one place

Disconnected and outdated systems hold procurement back. Now, you can connect purchasing processes to improve global and regional compliance, speed, visibility, and cost savings across SAP and third-party ERPs.

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SAP Central Procurement, private cloud edition consolidates your data into a single system so you can centralize control of requisitioning, purchasing, sourcing, contracts, and analytics – without the costs or complexities of change.

  • On-premise, cloud, or hybrid deployment
  • Central requisition management and tracking of PO items 
  • Management of aggregated item consumption in central contracts
  • Global spend analysis for requisitions and purchase orders

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SAP Central Procurement, private cloud edition consolidates your data into a single system so you can centralize control of requisitioning, purchasing, sourcing, contracts, and analytics – without the costs or complexities of change.

  • On-premise, cloud, or hybrid deployment
  • Central requisition management and tracking of PO items 
  • Management of aggregated item consumption in central contracts
  • Global spend analysis for requisitions and purchase orders

Key Benefits

Achieve companywide visibility

Orchestrate core procurement activities from a single, centralized command center and provide visibility into purchasing processes based on roles and permissions.

Gain a clear view of total spend

Get a comprehensive and accurate view of demand, requisitions, orders, and spend, supporting compliance, more-effective negotiations, and demand aggregation.

Improve productivity

Reduce redundancy and bring global consistency to key steps of the procurement process without disrupting day-to-day work and systems within each business unit.

Key Features

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All-in-one command center

  • Centralize compliance, process control, approval workflows, and document output using a single procurement command center
  • Deliver global control and visibility while transacting in local back-end systems​
  • Manage procurement responsibilities centrally

Unified requisitioning experience

  • Free up purchasers’ time by reducing repetitive tasks through a powerful automation framework 
  • Create requisitions centrally for all connected back ends using the guided buying capability in SAP Ariba solutions
  • Harmonize workflows for approvals, confirmations, and returns 

Central demand aggregation

  • Aggregate and bundle requisitions to take advantage of better volume pricing
  • Create and publish central RFQs from external PRs
  • Generate follow-on back-end POs or central contracts from quotations

Enterprise contract orchestration

  • Negotiate and monitor global contracts for legal entities across your enterprise 
  • Orchestrate operational contracts for direct and indirect materials companywide and distribute details to back-end ERPs for local execution 
  • Enable contract distribution at a header or line-item level

Central analytics

  • Monitor the health of your procurement process for continuous process improvement
  • Track central purchase contract consumption and global spend
  • Drill down to get a quick and accurate look at operational details and monitor requisition metrics, such as cycle times and touchless rates

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All-in-one command center

  • Centralize compliance, process control, approval workflows, and document output using a single procurement command center
  • Deliver global control and visibility while transacting in local back-end systems​
  • Manage procurement responsibilities centrally

Unified requisitioning experience

  • Free up purchasers’ time by reducing repetitive tasks through a powerful automation framework 
  • Create requisitions centrally for all connected back ends using the guided buying capability in SAP Ariba solutions
  • Harmonize workflows for approvals, confirmations, and returns 

Central demand aggregation

  • Aggregate and bundle requisitions to take advantage of better volume pricing
  • Create and publish central RFQs from external PRs
  • Generate follow-on back-end POs or central contracts from quotations

Enterprise contract orchestration

  • Negotiate and monitor global contracts for legal entities across your enterprise 
  • Orchestrate operational contracts for direct and indirect materials companywide and distribute details to back-end ERPs for local execution 
  • Enable contract distribution at a header or line-item level

Central analytics

  • Monitor the health of your procurement process for continuous process improvement
  • Track central purchase contract consumption and global spend
  • Drill down to get a quick and accurate look at operational details and monitor requisition metrics, such as cycle times and touchless rates

Build a business case

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Integrating with lower IT costs and risks

See how you can implement a centralized purchasing system across all buying channels, without reworking individual ERP solutions.

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Improving source-to-pay performance

Explore key procurement benchmarks and see how top companies perform against them with insights from our benchmarking survey.

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Delivering value to the business

Discover how central procurement management helps customers reduce costs, accelerate processes, and improve compliance.

Technical Information

Use SAP Business Technology Platform with this cloud solution to gain visibility, extend applications, and integrate your source-to-pay processes.

Visibility

Unlock spend data with solutions that deliver total spend visibility, aid in planning and forecasting, and connect critical data from SAP and third-party sources.

Extensibility

Customize and extend the value of spend management solutions by eliminating inefficiencies, building new apps, enhancing existing apps, and providing personalized experiences.

Integration

Centralize data, remove silos, and create a connected enterprise with integration solutions from SAP, streamlining your source-to-pay process with prebuilt connections.

Get Started

Jump-start your SAP solution implementation and drive ROI by collaborating with industry experts, consultants, and support engineers throughout your journey.

Services

Transform your business quickly and effectively by taking advantage of our holistic service and support plans, expert consulting services, custom application development, proven best practices, and deep industry and technical knowledge.

Support

Explore the learning center, engage in discussion forums, and create service requests in SAP Ariba Connect for solution power users and digital support contacts.

Security and compliance

Focus on your business and customer relationships, while keeping your data safe and reliable. SAP takes a proactive, predictive approach to maintaining compliance and data security in the cloud and within an on-premise data center.

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